No. 9

Summer 2005

David Blair's poems have recently appeared in Fence, The Greensboro Review, The Harvard Review, and Ploughshares. He has an M.F.A. in creative writing from The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and since 2000 he has been a fulltime member of the faculty at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Tyler Carter is a recent recipient of an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. His recent publications include poems in horse less review as well as a chap book Egg Breakfast forthcoming (Spring 2005) from horse less press.

Kelly Madigan Erlandson's work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, Talking River Review, CALYX and Puerto del Sol. Her manuscript Born in the House of Love won the Main-Traveled Roads Chapbook Award in 2004. She has attended residencies at KHN Center for the Arts, and Jentel Artist Residency Program.

Jim Goar took his MFA from the Kerouac School at Naropa University. He’s spent the past few years teaching English at universities in China, Thailand, and South Korea. His work has been published by, or is forthcoming from, El Pobre Mouse, TYPO, elimae, and KNOCK. He’d really like his blog, Can of Corn (http://canofcornforyou2.blogspot.com), to get more visitors. Consider yourself invited.

Salon, The Washington Post, Glamour, The New York Observer, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and Killing the Buddha have published personal essays by Maura Kelly, who's also written for publications like The New York Times, Slate and Rolling Stone. Lately, Maura's been reading books by Philips Fisher and Roth; listening to Arcade Fire, M. Ward and Big Star; and watching La Belle Noiseuse. A full draft of her first novel exists as of yesterday. Drop her a line at magazinereporter@yahoo.com

Joanne Lowery's poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, 5 AM, Passages North, Atlanta Review, and Poetry East. Her most recent collections are Medusa’s Darling from March Street Press and Seven Misters from Pygmy Forest Press. She lives in Michigan.

Adnan Adam Onart is of Crimean Tatar descent. His poetry has chronicled his Istanbul childhood and the largely neglected Crimean Tatar genocide perpetrated by Tsarist Russia and sustained by the former USSR. Now living in Boston, Onart has published books and essays on philosophy, linguistics and mathematical logic, Turkish poems in the magazines Soyut, Yordam, Karda_, Edebiyatlar, K¦r¦m and Dergah, and English ones in The Boston Poet, Prairie Schooner, Colere Magazine, Red Wheel Barrow, and The Massachusetts Review. He collaborated with Kiril Rosenovich (Kenneth Rosen) on the Istanbul museum publication, TURKISH: A Dictionary of Delight.

John Parras won a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction Writing. His first novel, Fire on Mount Maggiore, earned the Knoxville Writers' Guild Peter Taylor Prize and is forthcoming in the fall of 2005 from the University of Tennessee Press. He teaches literature and creative writing at William Paterson University. You can find out more about him at www.johnparras.net

Jim Reese is a writer, photographer, and editor who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. His work has appeared in New York Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Nebraska Life, Plains Song Review, Poetry Motel, and others. Reese's chapbooks include; As Worthless as Tits on a Boar (Cacthouse Press, 1995), Wedding Cake and Funeral Ham (Grizzly Press, 2002) and his most recent collection of creative non-fiction, The Jive (Morpo Press, 2004). Reese's first full-length collection of poetry, These Trespasses, is forthcoming from The Backwaters Press, 2005

Andrew Michael Roberts studies and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Recent work appears in The Iowa Review, Pool, Margie, Mudfish, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Sentence and Paragraph, among others. In a prior life he was poetry editor for the Portland Review.

Amie Robinson is a Brooklyn based artist and independent curator. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. When she is not teaching art to children in Coney Island, she is teaching her cats to talk. Please feel free to visit www.amierobinson.com

Chuck Rybak received his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Washington County. Poems of his have appeared in Quarterly West and the Schuylkill Valley Journal. His chapbook manuscript, Nickel and Diming My Way Through won Wind journal's 2004 Quentin R. Howard prize, and will be published in 2005. Rybak is also co-editor of Oneiros Press, which specializes in the publication of poetry broadsides. Our broadsides so far include Albert Goldbarth, Jane Mead, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Ai.

Scott M. Silsbe's work has appeared in the notre dame review, third coast, good foot, and kitchen sink.

Ross Simonini is a Seattle writer who publishes in places like Seattle Weekly, Comes with a Smile, and Konundrum Engine. He is an editor for the literary journals Cranky and Identity Theory. He plays with the band trespassers william. He is in nomination for a Pushcart Prize.

Tanya Underwood lives and writes in Gainesville, Florida.

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